Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly . |
2 | No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem . |
3 | see you 've given her the |
4 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
5 | Without an art school training , Romanowski , now in his late 20s , has taught himself the methods of the masters through reproductions in books and paintings hanging on gallery walls . |
6 | The experience has taught me a lot , not least about Margaret Thatcher 's single achievement in changing the class contours of British politics . |
7 | ‘ Her first professional job was before I was born , and she has taught me a lot . ’ |
8 | There is a very smart woman working in Conservative Central Office who has taught me a trick at least as useful at that of Shirley Williams . |
9 | Listening to those criticisms has taught me a salutary and humbling lesson . |
10 | I was very naive but the last year has taught me a lot . |
11 | ‘ He has taught me a great deal about the business , ’ Alice proffered , ‘ and I know he is totally loyal to the Maison de Verveine . |
12 | Kate has taught me a lot about motherhood — mostly because she approaches it in a completely different way to me . |
13 | Modern psychoanalysis has taught us a great deal about the ‘ splitting ’ and division that takes place within our own personality . |
14 | ‘ The Braer has taught us a terrible and forceful lesson and the real tragedy will be if we fail to learn from it … |
15 | ‘ The Braer has taught us a terrible and forceful lesson and the real tragedy will be if we fail to learn from it . ’ |
16 | No politician could have bettered it : ‘ Experience has taught us the fallibility of the assertion that crime rates amongst those of West Indian origin are no higher than those of the population at large . ’ |
17 | Or to put it another way , let us see how badly Miss Honey has taught you the three-times table . ’ |
18 | Here , Pip has realised what a disaster he is and he has been hit by hard consequences as a result of his greediness . |
19 | A local garage owner has leant them a car to help in the short term . |
20 | The Treasury Bench has heard what the hon. Gentleman said . |
21 | The Queen has been told that she is not to summon anybody to form a Government until she has heard who the new Leader is . |
22 | In the political parlance of 1992 , I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy . |
23 | ‘ He has given himself a hard race , ’ said Josh Gifford , but if he recovers quickly the seven-year-old will go for the H and T Walker Chase at Ascot next weekend . |
24 | A civil servant by day he has given himself a mission : to show the rest of the world just what can be done in a glider . |
25 | Odd-Knut has given him a hunting knife , and pointed him at the trees . |
26 | The Amstrad PCW he bought for writing letters when handwriting became too difficult has given him a new interest in life . |
27 | He has since got used to only having one sighted eye although it has given him a few recurring infections . |
28 | The 5ft 6in speedster felt he was persona non grata throughout Dave Stringer 's five years in charge at Carrow Road , but Mike Walker 's arrival in the summer has given him a new lease of life . |
29 | Oliver 's experience of returning to Metastasio 's original text has given him a new respect for that most maligned of operatic dramatists . |
30 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |